Because He's Jeff Goldblum by Travis M. Andrews

Author:Travis M. Andrews [Andrews, Travis M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

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If you’re curious just how popular Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s dino-epic really is, then I suggest you put this book down immediately, head to Google, and set up an alert for “Jeff Goldblum.”* I have one such alert set up. Every single day—this is no exaggeration; this happened every single day for nearly a year—Google alerted me to a story in which a journalist has written, “As Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm says in Jurassic Park, _________.” Filling that space is “Life, uhh, finds a way” if the story is whimsical, nice, or news of the weird; “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should” if the piece is about either a wild scientific discovery, something to do with climate change, or the announcement of a strange food item; or “Must go faster” if it’s a sports story.

It’s difficult to overstate how popular it was at the time. The movie crushed records faster than a T. rex can crush a Jeep. It earned more than a billion dollars at the box office, back when doing so was earth-shattering news. It quickly became the highest-grossing movie ever released to date. “I was eleven when that was released, and it was a cataclysmic movie,” said Sean Fennessey. “Every single living human I knew went to see that movie.”

As Klosterman alluded to, the thing to realize about Jurassic Park is Goldblum isn’t the star. “He’s such a significant part of it and has the most memorable lines in the movie,” Fennessey said, but he isn’t the star. Nor is Sam Neill or Laura Dern or Richard Attenborough or Samuel L. Jackson or . . . well, you get where I’m going with this. All the actors are mere window dressing. As Klosterman said, the real attraction, much as in the actual park, is the dinosaurs. He’s not the only one who thought so. That remains the case now, and it certainly was back when it came out in 1993.

“The dinosaurs were the stars of the movie. One hundred percent. I remember picking up Newsweek and the picture [on the cover] was of the Tyrannosaurus chasing the car. . . . There is no way for me to overstate how shocking those dinosaurs were in 1993,” said Bryan Curtis. And that was no accident. Spielberg insisted on creating “real” dinos, with Stan Winston building life-sized animatronic dinos to later animate over, so the production could use as little CGI as possible. “This movie is not Alien, where they can take whatever form your imagination suggests and be anything you want them to be because they don’t exist in history or physiology. These are dinosaurs that every kid in the world knows,” Spielberg told Empire magazine at the time. “Most of our dinosaurs were shot full size. Stan Winston built them for us in his creature shop—which we refuse to call it, we call it his ‘animal shop.’”

With such lifelike

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